So often we hear people complain that life is just so busy, and there aren’t enough hours in the day, but I’m done with that. There are plenty of hours to get what’s important done if we just focus, but it’s hard to focus with so much extra noise in the world. There are commercials […]

There’s no tangible gauge for how well you’re doing as a parent—no meter that points to Awesome or You’ve Got to be Kidding Me and no bumper sticker that asks How’s my driving? accompanied with a 1-800 number. I was recently listening to Gershwin’s An American in Paris at the dinner table with my young […]

My husband and I took a trip a few weeks ago to Athens, Ohio to revisit the campus of Ohio University, where I did my undergrad. I hadn’t been back since graduation in 1998. Since then I’ve lived in England, then moved to Chicago for 13 years, and now I find myself living, of all […]

As recently published in Dayton Daily News and read on WYSO, public radio. Listen to it here. The more I age, the more I appreciate the importance of eating right, exercising and not lying in the sun with bacon grease on my body. I do all these things easily on a daily basis, but I […]

Here’s an article I wrote for the Dayton Daily News recently about my love for the Wright brothers. Don’t want to read it? Listen to it here, as I read it on WYSO, public radio. I recently went to Carillon Historical Park, and as I listened to the guide tell us about the Wright brothers […]

I am a guest columnist for the Dayton Daily News. Here is a piece I wrote from 2013: The recent bomb threats at Kettering City Schools have made me think I just might be too soft for this parenting gig. Yes, it turns out it was just a kid with a crayon writing a hoax on […]